pervert

英 [p?'v??t] 美[p?'v?t]

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復數:?perverts;第三人稱單數:?perverts;過去式:?perverted;過去分詞:?perverted;現在分詞:?perverting;

1、per- "through" 在這里引申為：由好的一方面through到不好的一方面，=> away；同類單詞：pervert, perjury.
2、per- + vert-.
3、literally "turn sb or sth through to the wrong way".

pervert 顛倒，誤導，墮落，性變態

per-,完全的，-vert,轉，詞源同divert,convert.即轉過去，顛倒，引申詞義誤導，墮落，性變態等。

pervert: pervert: see verse
pervert (v.): c. 1300 (transitive), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief to a false or erroneous one," from Old French pervertir "pervert, undo, destroy" (12c.) and directly from Latin pervertere "overthrow, overturn," figuratively "to corrupt, subvert, abuse," literally "turn the wrong way, turn about," from per- "away" (see per) + vertere "to turn" (see versus).

Related: Perverted; perverting. Replaced native froward, which embodies the same image. Old English had mishweorfed "perverted, inverted," an identical formation to the Latin word using native elements.
pervert (n.): 1660s, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate," from pervert (v.). Psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally especially of homosexuals.

1. He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.: 他被控謀劃妨礙司法公正。

3. Reading such silly stories will pervert your taste for good books.: 讀這種愚昧的故事會敗壞你對好書的嗜好.

4. He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert.: 他招認他篤信宗教, 崇拜資本主義, 是個老色鬼.

5. He couldn't find another pervert to have a fight with closer to home?: 他就不能找個離家近點的性變態來打架嗎 ?